James Rogers Reviews

I played for Rogers for two season and it was a nightmare. I don’t even know where to begin there was so much inappropriate behavior. He made it very clear his bottom line was winning and he would do anything to achieve his target record. My first year I wasn’t a starter so I don’t really think I had a full conversation with him the entire year. I was completely disregarded as a person. As a team we literally ran so many suicides the majority of us ended up with injuries from toenails falling to shin splints to even stress fractures. If anyone especially a starter got injured, they were pressured to return to the court much sooner than was healthy. Whatever suicides were missed counted as debt and had to be made up. If you missed three suicides five would be added to total eight in debt. If the team lost he would find any excuse to make the next practice a living hell. Every minute we were late to classes, practices, weights, or team meetings added suicides. One girl was .004 seconds late to class meaning we had to run. One time after a close loss girls took four steps towards the Chick-fil-A in front of him resulting in an extra 4 suicides. If we ordered before him, suicides. If we ate a single bite before him, suicides. If we didn’t fully clean the table, every piece of trash or straw wrapper resulted in suicides. The team especially freshmen lived in a constant state of fear because he had created such a toxic environment that the rest of the team would turn on anyone that added suicides to the bank even if it was for ridiculous reasons. The dress code was so strict. There were certain jackets shirts and water bottles meant for specific occasions that could result in extra running if worn wrong. The environment was military and cruel. I was only treated as a human being when I started my second season. There is so much more like him staring at our butts while we bear crawled and laughing when girls cried or puked. All the reviews before mine are true as well and I hope he gets fired. He doesn’t deserve any position around young women.

Fitness is important. But not to this coach- given his much higher than average bmi. The chick fil a he makes the players eat 3 times a day has obviously gotten to him. It must’ve affected his brain as well- given he is a complete and total @**wipe. He preys on young girls which is the only reason he started coaching volleyball. Very creepy and weird behavior overall. Wouldn’t trust my kid around this guy to save their life. I would rather watch my child go away to war then to deal with this predator.

He only cares about the starters, in fall of 22 in an interview, he pointed out key players that we’re going to make all conference with that being said he identified certain girls that were going to play all the time in the other girls basically were benched for most of the season. He had nine key players out of 22.

He doesn’t allow you to ask questions. He is constantly manipulating players. He doesn’t care about you unless your a starter. Only cares about winning. He will pressure you for grades, but he believes that you should put volleyball first. You are constantly walking on egg shells around him.